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"Heavy Equipment" button

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joebill:
So, what does the "Add heavy equipment" button do, if anything, right now?

If it's as useless as I suspect, what will it do?

TheCynicalRust:
In the original X-Com there were little tanks you could have go out with your crew. My guess is it'll be something like that, or maybe a reprogrammed bloodspider.
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Troberg:
Somewhat off topic, but cool researchable technology idea:

It would be cool if the drop tanks on the phoenix could be replaced with bloodspider pods, which directly upon landing, released reprogrammed bloodspiders (maybe two or three per pod) that fight on your side. These would be in addition to your troops and would not affect troop count. The downside would be that they could not be built, only made from repaired bloodspiders that you have killed, and they would be under AI control, not player control.

Great for automatic scouting out enemies, but uncontrollable. Likely to be lost, as they'll not be as smart as a player and will likely rush into groups of aliens, and difficult to aquire, so you save them for those really hard missions.

shevegen:

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Whoa cool, didnt think of that!

I was aware of the original "tank"-support and I liked it, especially when i didnt want to risk
my soldiers... but a reprogrammed alien sounds kinda cooler :)

Sophisanmus:
The UFOpedia already contains entries for "AWG"s (or something, I hope I remembered the correct acronym) which, from the profile picture in-game, appear much like armored fighting vehicles.  The descriptions, however, are empty, containing only <TO-DO>.  I believe it has been confirmed that they will be unmanned combat units.  I don't know if there are any plans for reprogramming of enemy mechanical units, and "coolness" aside it seems difficult and impractical.  More likely, research of the components and design of Bloodspiders could lead to more advanced AWG technology, or something of that sort.

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